Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (2011)

Shot during Conan O'Brien's Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television tour, after he left The Tonight Show, this catches a performer who cannot switch off. He is charming on stage and exhausted and prickly backstage, where his constant needling of his staff struck some reviewers as affectionate and others as mean. That honesty is why it belongs here. It shows what a comedian does with anger and a sudden void in his career, and how much grinding work goes into making a live show look loose and silly.